Middlezoy / Sowi / Sowy

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Dbown100 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middlezoychurch.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, to the south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14620MID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross [St. Mary in the 16th century -- St. Lawrence in the 13th century]

Church Location: Church Road, Middlezoy TA7 0NU, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Somerset, South West

Directions to Site: Located off the A372, just NNW of Othery, 10 km ESE of Bridgwater

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells

Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Middle]zoy and Weston[zoy]land [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/middlezoy-and-westonzoyland/] [accessed 1 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1958) writes: "Font. Of the octagonal Perp[endicular] standard type." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "Middlezoy chapel was dedicated to St. Lawrence in the early 13th century [...] and to St. Mary in the 1540s [...] By 1754 [...] the present dedication to Holy Cross had been adopted", and describes the font as "late medieval". The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with deeply-carved pointed quatrefoil panels with floral motif inscribed; the underbowl chamfer is fluted; raised on a slender octagonal pedestal with panelled sides. The wooden font cover is flat, decorated with metal, and has a large acorn finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0939, -2.8942

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 38.04″ N, 2° 53′ 39.12″ W

UTM: 30U 507409 5660272

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958